Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
A Biohistory of American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.
America’s First Regional Theatre
The Cleveland Play House and Its Search for a Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.
South Africa's Renegade Reels
The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much-needed study, author Litheko Modisane delves into the public...
Stray Dog of Anime
The Films of Mamoru Oshii
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed 'stray dog'. This is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from Urusei Yatsura to Avalon .
Wittgenstein and Plato
Connections, Comparisons and Contrasts
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought.
The Theory of Descriptions
Russell and the Philosophy of Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project.
by Steven Methven
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramsey's genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the impact he had on Wittgenstein's later philosophical insights.
Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network
America and the West’s Fatal Embrace
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from America's addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by renowned experts, this book uses first-hand accounts to explore this vast influence
Lusting for London
Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia.
Fashion Statements
On Style, Appearance, and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
While there have been scholarly commentaries on the philosophy of fashion, none yet have attempted to engage fashion on its own hybrid, inflected, and heterogeneous terms. Celebrating the plurality and audacity inherent in its subject, Fashion Statements presents insightful, playful, and accessible essays on the philosophy of fashion.
Immigration and the Challenge of Education
A Social Drama Analysis in South Central Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Analyzes a community from the standpoint of immigrant mothers in South Central Los Angeles who were concerned about the education of their children and the violence in their communities. Written in Spanish and English, the text brings together the women's observations as they put into action their developing political consciousness.
by E. King
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual.
by W. Kohan
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Kohan offers a transformative, revolutionary, and more radical alternative theory and practice of philosophy for children. He critiques the current state of philosophy for children and demonstrates alternative ways of thinking and practicing philosophy in childhood education.
by Inela Selimović
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucía Puenzo. Such tensions, Selimović argues, result in “affective moments” that relate to the films’ core arguments. They...